COME
There are many in ministry to-day that point folk to the Bible, The Holy Writings and make sweeping, presumptuous statements such as, ..the Bible saves, delivers, heals etc:
ARE THEY RIGHT????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
I TROW NOT: As a young boy and man, I read much scripture, and I believed the scriptures, I believed God was real, Jesus came and shed His blood for our redemption, I believed that miracles happened, demons were cast out, the dead were raised, I had no doubt that all these things happened, ..BUT, THAT DIDN`T SAVE ME, THAT DIDN`T BRING ANY MIRACLES INTO MY LIFE PERSONALLY, IT DIDN`T MATTER HOW MUCH EFFORT I PUT INTO PUMPING UP MY BELIEF, MY SPIRITUAL CONDITION DID NOT CHANGE: ..HANG ON A MINUTE, ACCORDING TO MOST CHURCH LEADERSHIP IT SHOULD HAVE, HAVING BEEN ASSURED THAT IT WOULD BY SAME MINISTRY, ACCORDING TO THEM ALL I HAD TO DO WAS, . READ MY BIBLE:
THUS SAITH THE LORD:
THOU BELIEVEST THAT THERE IS ONE GOD; THOU DOEST WELL: THE DEVILS ALSO BELIEVE, AND TREMBLE. JA. 2/19. (SEE, THIS WAS ME:)
IT`S NOT HARD TO FIGURE WHY IT DIDN`T WORK, .. BUT THE WORD PREACHED DID NOT PROFIT THEM, NOT BEING MIXED WITH FAITH IN THEM THAT HEARD IT. HEB. 4/2. SEE, I WAS READING, BUT I HAD NO FAITH, SO NOTHING WORKED FOR ME.
AGAIN, YOU MUST HEAR LOVING FATHER, SPEAK TO YOU TO CREATE FAITH IN YOUR HEART, ..AND THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN JUST BY READING WORDS ON A PIECE OF PAPER WITH YOUR MIND:
IT WASN`T UNTIL I, HEARD ..LOVING FATHER, ..SPEAK, ..
TO ME, THAT MY SPIRITUAL CONDITION CHANGED UPON MY HEARING, (with the inner ear,) AND BELIEVING AND OBEYING HIS SPOKEN, QUICKENED, UTTERED, ORALLY DELIVERED WORDS TO ME PERSONALLY: FAITH COMES BY HEARING, AND HEARING BY THE WORD OF GOD, WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD, THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH, WHATSOEVER IS NOT OF FAITH IS SIN:
It never ceases to amaze me just how many preachers make such statements, and all they are doing is sowing confusion and disillusionment to the hearers because they have not taken the time or trouble to prayfully gain the ability to articulate and teach, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, OMITTING NOTHING, AND BECOME ABLE TO POINT THE WAY TO SALVATION CLEARLY, AND SIMPLY, TO ALL WHO ARE LISTENING:
IT`S JESUS WHO DELIVERS, HEALS, SAVES, REDEEMS US TO
THE UTTERMOST: IT`S THE SON OF GOD IN THE PERSON OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, NOT BOOKS,
WORDS ON PAPER: IT`S A PERSONAL ENCOUNTER WITH THE SON OF GOD:
STILL NOT CONVINCED?........LISTEN TO THIS STATEMENT BY JESUS:
SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES FOR IN THEM YE THINK YE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE: AND THEY ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY OF ME.
AND YE WILL NOT, ..COME, ..TO ME, THAT YE MIGHT HAVE LIFE. JOHN
5/39-40.
See,
that`s
all I was doing when I was younger, searching the scriptures, thinking that I
would find eternal life;
.BUT I
WOULDN`T COME TO JESUS SO HE COULD SAVE ME: I WOULDN`T COME TO JESUS, SO HE
COULD SPEAK TO ME, CAUSE FAITH TO COME IN MY HEART, SO I COULD HEAR AND OBEY,
BE DELIVERED, HEALED, SAVED, REDEEMED:
QUACK PREACHING THAT POINTS TO
EVERYTHING,
EXCEPT
.JESUS:
NOWHERE IN SCRIPTURE DID JESUS SAY TO FIND SALVATION
IN READING THE HOLY WRITINGS:
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, JESUS THE CHRIST:
COME UNTO ME,
ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY
LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. MATH. 11/28.
IF ANY MAN THIRST, LET HIM,
.COME UNTO ME,
.. AND
DRINK. JOHN 7/37.
HO, EVERY ONE THAT THIRSTETH,
COME
.YE TO THE
WATERS, AND HE THAT HATH NO MONEY;
.COME
.YE BUY, AND EAT;
YEA,
.COME,
..BUY WINE AND MILK WITHOUT MONEY AND WITHOUT PRICE. IS. 55/1.
AND THE SPIRIT AND THE BRIDE SAY,
..COME,
..AND LET
HIM THAT HEARETH SAY,
.COME,
.AND LET HIM THAT IS ATHIRST
COME,
.AND
WHOSOEVER WILL, LET HIM TAKE THE WATER OF LIFE FREELY. REV. 22/17.
POINT THE FOLK TO CHRIST GENTS, IT SHOULDN`T BE HARD
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN FOUND OF HIM, THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE HAD AND LIVE
DAILY IN A VIBRATING ENCOUNTER WITH THE SON OF GOD: OF COURSE IF YOU HAVEN`T
EXPERIENCED THIS, THEN
.COME,
COME NOW:
..
THUS SAITH THE LORD CHRIST:
BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR, AND KNOCK: IF ANY
MAN
.HEAR MY VOICE,
AND OPEN THE DOOR, I WILL COME IN TO HIM, AND WILL SUP
WITH HIM, AND HE WITH ME. REV. 3/20.
Bevan Kluver
Straight Talk
Ministries
Ph/Fax 07 55452874,
Website www.straighttalkmin.org bevan.kluver@bigpond.com
speaking the truth in love, in the spirit of meekness, earnestly contending for the faith;
HELPING HIM PREPARE A BRIDE WITHOUT SPOT OR BLEMISH:
HATING EVEN THE GARMENT SPOTTED BY THE FLESH:
P. S. Now don`t get your knickers in a knot, I am not advocating that you don`t read the Bible, when you have an encounter with The Son of God, you will become a student of the Holy Writings under the auspicious of The Holy Ghost, BUT NEVER FORGET THE SOURCE OF THE VISION, THE REVELATION, THE WORD, THE PREACHING, THE TEACHING, IT`S TOO EASY TO SLIP AWAY FROM YOUR FIRST LOVE WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN TAUGHT, COACHED, BY THE LORD, AND YOU BECOME FILLED WITH NOT ONLY FAITH, BUT KNOWLEDGE, TO THE POINT WHERE YOU CAN PROVE TRUTH FROM ERROR THROUGH WHAT YOU KNOW: DON`T FALL INTO THE TRAP THAT THE CHURCH AT EPHESUS DID, FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND NEGLECTED THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS, . THEIR FIRST LOVE: